Terror!

Around lunchtime I lost a day and a half's work in a computer crash. Amongst other things, all the cloth patterns on the image below went. I seem to have somehow caught back up with myself (which means I was working slowly in the first place), though if I'd been running my Time Machine properly (the mac backup system, not that mess of crumpled tin-foil and cardboard over by the piano) it would have been an easier afternoon.

First Pink Nose of the Season

Spent a sunny afternoon in the park discussing episode ideas for the tv show with my two brilliant collaborators. A (for today) pretty privileged work schedule... and a relief to get outside, away from fun but myopia inducing colouring-in. Then I came home and watched a lengthy television documentary about how Sumo wrestlers tie their hair (seriously).

Here is a photograph of a long drowned umbrella.

Picking up...

...very nearly where the first book left off.

This morning I finished the first spread of Dexter Bexley & the Big Blue Beastie on the Road. Given that all the other spreads are very nearly finished too, I ought really to sign and send off the contract...

"Into the night of his very own room"

Anyone else feel impressed but somehow slightly injured by the Where the Wild Things Are movie trailer? I expected them to get a million things wrong (look at those telly-movie family scenes!), but not to feel so tender about the things they might get right. I still say the kid is too old, and am not surprised that he came off "bratty and "mean-spirited" in early versions.

The book made me feel like the rumpus was mine. The trailer makes me feel like it's being stolen. How mean-spirited and brattish of me...

Think I'll go and draw on the walls...

Patterns

Gah, I always feel creepingly guilty when I whine about publishing things on here...

Look, I think Dexter 2 will have lots of patterned cloth...

Off Colour

I've found that a project of mine will likely go to print with pretty inaccurate colour. I shan't go into the whole thing more here, since the project in general has already been enough to literally bring me out in a rash. Really, I like to learn things as I go, but I'd rather they didn't see print until they were ready. I'm fairly convinced it wasn't my fault, (in other circumstances I have much more say in the proofing process), though perhaps I have been distracted by the big TV show project (which is up in front of the money people today...)

Here we have some colouring in (early) process, for an entirely different project.



Pete! I finally filled a book with bagpipes...

Oh and I received this beautiful book yesterday, from the Chihiro Art museum in Japan, where some of my work is being exhibited currently.